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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

;

pl.

Illiteracies

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[From

The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; lack of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write;

as, the

illiteracy

shown by the last census

An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder.

The many blunders and

illiteracies

of the first publishers of his [Shakespeare’s] works.

Pope.

Noun.

[from illiterate.] The state of being untaught or unlearned; want of a knowledge of letters; ignorance.